Simon via Dng <dng@???> writes:

> [...]
>>     Having only Devuan on my computers, I lean to keep the whole OS,
>> with the exception of /home, on one single partition.

>
> I like /var on it’s own partition too - that way, if^H^Hwhen something
> goes wild and spews lots of logging to disk, it doesn’t bring the
> machine down. Been there :-(

A number of containerization/virtualization tools, e.g. Docker, Incus,
libvirt, keep stuff in /var/lib/ (by default) that may eat up a decent
chunk of disk space. For that reason, you might want to put that on a
separate partition as well.

It's also the reason I normally install lvm2 on systems that use such
tools so I can resize, add and remove file systems to follow changing
usage patterns.

> [...]

Hope this helps,
--
Olaf Meeuwissen